Field Guide to Mysterious Places of Eastern North America

Field Guide to Mysterious Places of the West

Field Guide to Mysterious Places of the Pacific Coast

Field Guide to Mysterious Places of 
Eastern North America

Is there an ancient solar temple deep within the Vermont woods?

Why does a bed of rocks on a Pennsylvania river sound like it's ringing? Is there real proof of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts?

Why do strange lights appear in the sky over a field in upstate New York?

Find out the answers to these questions and discover dozens more mysterious and controversial rocks and ruins in this fully illustrated, one-of-a-kind guide to unexplained phenomena of eastern North America. Intrepid scientist Sal Trento gives you the historical background of each site and the various interpretations through the ages, tells you the best time to visit and what to bring, and even, provides detailed maps and directions.

Mystery surrounds us all--once you've read this fascinating guide you will never look at a common rock, or a light in the sky, or a plain clearing in the woods the same way again....

"The book reads like an adventure tale ... inviting the reader to

draw his or her own conclusions. Reading Sal's book makes you want

to pack up and check out these wondrous sites for yourself."

-Stephen J. Abramson, director, Sightings

"Packed with great ideas for weekend excursions into history and mystery."

-William Corliss, The Sourcebook Project

Field Guide to Mysterious 
Places of the West

Scattered across the West are a variety of strange, weird, and unusual sites and structures. Archeologist Salvatore Trento, who has spent almost twenty years locating, researching, and recording mysterious places across the United States, has unearthed archeological and geological anomalies that remain inexplicable to the scientific community, despite sometimes extensive investigation.

In the western United States, these unusual and enigmatic sites abound. Who or what, for instance, created the Turtle Rock Geoforms in northern Colorado--a grouping of eroded granite blocks with defined, recognizable shapes? What can be the cause of the Yellowstone Lake "Whispers," or the Taos, New Mexico, "Hum"? Can a sand dune really sing? What purposes did prehistoric stone circles serve?

Lavishly illustrated with maps, historical drawings, and contemporary photography, A Field Guide to Mysterious Places of the West will guide you to some of the most mysterious and unusual places in the western United States and present the most current hypotheses concerning their origins and possible use. Including sites in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Washington, and Wyoming.

Field Guide to Mysterious Places
of the Pacific Coast

Join the intrepid author of Field Guide to Mysterious Places of Eastern North America as he ventures back out into the field, this time along the Pacific Coast, to once again shed light on the mysterious places and phenomena that continue to stump the scholars. Armed with fascinating scientific theories and an irrepressible wit, Sal Trento literally leaves no stone unturned in his quest for the origin and meaning behind the myths.

• Who built the ancient ridge-top walls of Berkeley, and how did these primitive people cut and lift the massive, megaton blocks of stone?

• What are the ancient paintings on a cliffside near Yakima, Washington, trying to tell us?

• Are the desolate Calico Mountains of Southern California harboring the secret clues to man's early presence in North America?

From the top of Washington to the bottom of California, from Bigfoot to the Cave of Many Hands, Trento provides the history and background of these sites and many more and tells you what to bring and the best time to go. Detailed directions, maps, and illustrations make them all easy to find--so toss this field guide into the glove box of the Jeep or RV, ready to consult at a moment's notice out in the field, or enjoy it in your favorite armchair, allowing these open-minded accounts of ancient enigmas and modem puzzles to reconnect you with a sense of wonder so often lacking in our modem world.

Praise for Field Guide to Mysterious Places of Eastern North America

"The Field Guide can send you off to spots where the tourist buses won't

be gathering. Trento gives detailed directions and descriptions for dozens

of unusual sites all over the East."--New York Press

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